Book News and Reviews
song variation apparently did not bear any relation to the color-phaseof the individuals. —A. K. F
THE OSPREY.7WE have been reliably informed that the editor of “The Osprey‘ is perfectly willing to furnish financial sup- port for resuming publication, providing he can find some one among the younger orni- thologists who has time and ability to take complete charge of the management, and who will attend to the various details, the proper accomplishment of which are most essential to the production of a progressive and up—to-date magazine. We sincerely hope that Dr, Gill will he successlul in securing an able assistant. so that ‘ The Os- prey‘ may become a regular viaitor once more.7A. K. F‘.
Book News
We HAVE received no news concerning the proposed publication this fall of the re- vised edition of Dr. Coltes' ‘ Key to North American Birds.‘ it is to be hoped that those in charge of the passage of this work through the press will see that the many changes in the nomenclature of North American birds which have been made since the manuscript was completed, some four years ago. will be incorporated in its pages.
‘THE ATLANTIC SLOPE NATK'RMJST' is a recently»establislted [Sepage bimonthly, edited and published by W. E. Rotzell, M D.. at Narbeth. Pa. The third num- ber (July and August, 1903) contains sev- eral articles on birds of more than usual interest, including a record by Ernest H. Short of the breeding of the Conne n' Warbler in Monroe county, New York; and another. by Mark L. C. Wilde. of the breeding of the Pileated Woodpecker in Cape May county, New jersey, in t893.
IN ‘Scrauce’ for August t4, tgog. Mr. Charles C. Adams, Curator of the Museum of the University of Michigan. announces the discovery by N. A. Wood. in Oscoda county. Michigan. oi the first known nest of Kirtland’s Warbler. Mr. Wood found two nests, and evidently readied the south- ern limit of this rate Warbler’s breeding range. We are promised a full report of this important piece of fieldwork later.
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‘OL'R ANIMAL Flucuus' enters its thirty- first volume with the issue of its September number. which appears in a new and greatly improved form.
EnuCa-rlonat. LEAFLET. No. 5. of the National Committee of Audubon Societies is by William Dutcher, and treats of the economic status of the Flicker. Copies of this leaflet mav he obtained at cost from the
author, at 525 Manhattan Avenue. York City,
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‘I‘HE zoological Quarterly Bulletin ot the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Vol. I. No. 2. contains “An Analytic Key for the Determination of lhe Families of Pennsylvanian Birds ‘ and the first part of a ‘General Discussion of Our Native Birds by Orders and Families,‘ by H. A, Sortace. Copies of this Bulletin may be had by
applying to the author, at Harrisburg. Pennsylvania.
THE Forest. Fish and Game Commission of the state of New York has issued, in ad- vance of its appearanc: in the annual report of the commission, a pamphlet or some sixty quarto pages. entitled “The Eeonomie Value of Birds to the State.‘ The text was Com~ piled by Frank M. Chapman; the illustra. tions, twelve in number. are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and are doubtless the most beautiful colored plates of birds which have been published in this country,
“I‘M: OTTAWA NATL‘RALIS'I' for July. tgo3. contains the third paper in a valuable series on the 'Nesting of some Canadian \Varblers,’ by William F. Kells.
‘THE EMU,‘ oiiicial organ of the Aus- tralasian Ornithologists' Union. continues to grow in size and in excellent . an indica- tion. no doubt, of increasing interest in Ornithology in the antipodes. The July, r903, issue. the first number of the third volume. contains So pages of text and sev- eral excellent half-tones, one of which. of a colony of sooty Tems, we believe shows more birds than we have ever seen before in one photograph.
"I‘he Emu ' is Edited hy A. 1. Campbell and H. Kendall. of Melbourne, and is published at four shillings per copy.
